Nguyen Ngoc

Nguyen Ngoc was a Vietnamese writer and communist political officer during the First Indochina War and the Vietnam War.

Biography
Nguyen Ngoc was born in Da Nang, French Indochina, the son of a post office worker. In 1951, he joined the Viet Minh as a political officer, and he fondly remembered the First Indochina War, recounting happy soldiers singing romantic songs as they marched into battle. He later fought in the Vietnam War as a Viet Cong fighter, and he believed that, had Le Duan not escalated the North Vietnam-South Vietnam conflict, the United States would never have intervened; he was also upset by the lack of a popular uprising in South Vietnam in response to the Tet Offensive. After the war, he became a writer and a pacifist.